Chilly Weekend at the Magic Kingdom

We’re back from our annual Christmas trip to Disneyland, with various friends. We had nice weather for the first two days (Saturday night and Sunday), albeit a bit chilly, and then Monday the rains moved in and we spent the day bundled up under ponchos. The rain tapered off around 3 pm, and we managed to hit all our favorite rides at least twice over the trip, so it all worked out. We also had two nice meals, at the Blue Bayou restaurant in Disneyland, and at Steakhouse 55 at the Disneyland hotel, both a cut (or three) above the typical park fare.

They haven’t yet started the major renovations on the California Adventure park, which will change it from a general California theme park to one emphasizing early 20th century Los Angeles, when Walt Disney first moved to the state. (They’ll be tearing down the Golden Gate Bridge, for instance.) That will be a sad time.

The trip home was delayed a bit by the bad weather closing the Grapevine, the stretch of I-5 north of LA, for 17 hours overnight. We got to the foothills at the tail end of the shutdown and got stuck for 45 minutes, but that’s not bad, considering. We arrived home to unseasonably cold weather (apparently it didn’t break 50 today) and some kitties who were very happy to see us.

Jefferson seems to be just fine, 10 days after his dental surgery. He was scheduled for his follow-up appointment tomorrow morning, but the vet left a message that his doctor got summoned to jury duty, so I’ll have to reschedule.

That hiccup aside, tomorrow it’s back to the grind: Morning coffee, getting caught up on work after two days away, and comic books in the evening. And getting into the swing of the holidays, with putting up the tree and outside lights this weekend. Not much to complain about, really.

2 thoughts on “Chilly Weekend at the Magic Kingdom”

  1. Major renovations hadn’t started yet?? When I was there in the Spring there was giant construction in (what had been) the lake at Paradise Pier. It was rather loud and unsightly, and some of the attractions were closed.

  2. Well, I guess it would be more accurate to say they haven’t started renovating anything I really care about. 🙂 The lake at Paradise Pier is a nice view, but not truly functional, and the buildings they removed/replaced between the Grizzly River Run and the lake are ones I don’t think I’d ever been in. The changes to the front gate will be a lot more noticeable (and more saddening).

    I don’t think a single attraction was closed throughout either park this time, other than the occasional unexpected, brief outages.

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